Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:00:53 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: sector size of 2068? |
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On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Peter wrote:
> What interests me about the resulting behavior is what fdisk says: > Device Flag Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 0 0 4923 8839246+ 83 Linux native > /dev/sdb3 0 0 4923 8839246+ 5 Whole disk > > Is 8.43 gig really how much is left when you partition off a 9.09 gig > drive? That just doesn't seem sane. Somebody tell me if I'm crazy.
This probably means that the controller you used uses a large number of 'spare' sectors on the drive.
Another formatting program might use less spare sectors and with a larger sector size (1 or 2 kb) you could get even more usable space.
The linux programs scsi-config and scsiinfo (the scsiformat part, that is) will let you do this.
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